The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, October 30, 2011

Editor’s Note: If you want to experiment with tarot cards and don’t have any, we provide a free tarot spread generator using the Celtic Wings spread, which is based on the traditional Celtic Cross spread. This article explains how to use the spread. You can visit Sarah’s website here. –efc

By Sarah Taylor

Go within. Use what you have. Draw on infinite resources that you can access without relying on others. You do this in partnership with yourself, and your Self. When you do act, however, you will find that there is support out there that is waiting for you.

Four of Swords, Seven of Pentacles, Nine of Wands - RWS Tarot deck.
Four of Swords, Seven of Pentacles, Nine of Wands from the Rider-Waite Smith Tarot deck. Click on the image for a larger version.

I wrote earlier this week that tarot doesn’t take any holidays, and this reading bears that out. On Wednesday, I drew six cards to illustrate the first part (the ‘cross’ aspect) of a Celtic Cross reading.

On the horizontal axis, the middle card — Card 1, the Current Situation — and the card to its right — Card 6, the Near Future — were the Four of Swords and the Nine of Wands respectively. Here, we seem to have a development of this progression, as another card intervenes to add a piece to the puzzle. This card, the Seven of Pentacles, also seems to want to work with the energy of Card 2 — the Influencing Factor — in the Celtic Cross reading, which was another Seven: the Seven of Wands.

So, to recap, in the Celtic Cross reading of 26 October, we had: Current Situation — Four of Swords, Influencing Factor — Seven of Wands, Near Future — Nine of Wands.

In this Weekend Tarot Reading, we have: Left — Four of Swords, Centre — Seven of Pentacles, Right — Nine of Wands.

Some great symmetry going on. What does it mean? This is my take on it — much of which will be mirrored from the earlier article.

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